Sentences with phrase «wildlife mortality»

Over 200 organizations — the largest coalition ever assembled on the issue of wildlife mortality from feral cats — joined ABC and signed on to a letter requesting that the U.S. Department of Interior prohibit feral cat colonies on public lands.

Over 200 organizations — the largest coalition ever assembled on the issue of wildlife mortality from feral cats — joined ABC and signed on to a letter requesting that the U.S. Department of Interior prohibit feral cat colonies on public lands.

Biologists may also be able to use it to monitor wildlife mortality rates and to identify disease outbreaks.

«Our findings suggest that free - ranging cats cause substantially greater wildlife mortality than previously thought and are likely the single greatest source of anthropogenic mortality for U.S. birds and mammals,» Marra and his co-authors conclude.

Admittedly, people are the cause of many accidental wildlife mortalities.

The study blamed feral «unowned» cats but noted that their domestic peers «still cause substantial wildlife mortality.»

«This is an unprecedented wildlife mortality and is borderline catastrophic,» said Dr. Gregory Bossart, senior vice president and chief veterinary officer of Georgia Aquarium.

Selective quoting is important, as Mr. Wiegand has a constant refrain that the US Fish and Wildlife Service has engaged in a 28 - year long cover - up of wind farm mortality, and believes that the very carefully worked out wildlife mortality counting methodologies employed at wind farms — methodologies developed and vetted by wildlife biologists, avian preservation groups and the wind industry — consistently undercount avian mortality.

Minimizing wildlife mortality at wind farms is a major goal of conservation, although research on how best to do that is in short supply.

Field investigations of wildlife mortalities.

«If the real objection to managed colonies is that it is unethical to put cats in a situation where they could potentially kill any wild creature,» writes Patronek, «then the ethical issue should be debated on its own merits without burdening the discussion with highly speculative numerical estimates for either wildlife mortality or cat predation.»

Population size estimates can be improved by incorporating observations of free - ranging cats into a wildlife mortality reporting database23.